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This book examines major conceptual challenges confronting freedom
of religion or belief in contemporary settings. The volume brings
together chapters by leading experts from law, religious studies,
and international relations, who provide perspectives from both
sides of the Atlantic. At a time when the polarization of 'culture
wars' is aggravating tensions between secular and religious views
about accommodating the conscientious claims of individuals and
groups, and when the right to freedom of religion itself is facing
misunderstanding and erosion, the work provides welcome clarity and
depth. Some chapters adopt a primarily conceptual and historical
approach; others analyze particular difficulties or conflicts that
have emerged in European and American jurisdictions, along with
concrete applications and recommendations for the future. The book
will be a valuable resource for students, academics, and
policy-makers with an interest in law, religion, and human rights.
This book examines major conceptual challenges confronting freedom
of religion or belief in contemporary settings. The volume brings
together chapters by leading experts from law, religious studies,
and international relations, who provide perspectives from both
sides of the Atlantic. At a time when the polarization of
‘culture wars’ is aggravating tensions between secular and
religious views about accommodating the conscientious claims of
individuals and groups, and when the right to freedom of religion
itself is facing misunderstanding and erosion, the work provides
welcome clarity and depth. Some chapters adopt a primarily
conceptual and historical approach; others analyze particular
difficulties or conflicts that have emerged in European and
American jurisdictions, along with concrete applications and
recommendations for the future. The book will be a valuable
resource for students, academics, and policy-makers with an
interest in law, religion, and human rights.
What is the place assigned to religion in the constitutions of
contemporary States? What role is religion expected to perform in
the fields that are the object of constitutional regulation? Is
separation of religion and politics a necessary precondition for
democracy and the rule of law? These questions are addressed in
this book through an analysis of the constitutional texts that are
in force in different parts of the world. Constitutions are at the
centre of almost all contemporary legal systems and provide the
principles and values that inspire the action of the national
law-makers. After a discussion of some topics that are central to
the constitutional regulation of religion, the book considers a
number of national systems covering countries with a variety of
religious and cultural backgrounds. The final section of the book
is devoted to the discussion of the constitutional regulation of
some particularly controversial issues, such as religious
education, the relation between freedom of speech and freedom of
religion, abortion, and freedom of conscience.
Islam, Europe and Emerging Legal Issues brings together vital
analysis of the challenges that Europe poses for an expanding Islam
and that Islam poses for Europe, within their ever-evolving
religious, legal, and social environments. This book gathers some
of the best thinking on Islam and the law affecting current and
contested issues that can no longer be ignored, particularly as
they have found their way before the European Court of Human
Rights. Contributors include leading authorities who are working at
the heart of this generation's law and religion questions in Europe
and across the world. This book outlines implications for all those
who look to Europe-from both within and without-for models of human
rights implementation and multi-cultural accommodation.
Islam and Political-Cultural Europe identifies the sometimes
confusing and often contentious new challenges that arise in daily
life and institutions as Islam settles deeper into Europe.
Critiquing past and recent assimilation efforts in the fields of
education, finance, and security, the contributors offer
prospective solutions to diverse contemporary problems. Exploring
the interactions of Muslim, Christian and secular cultures in the
context of highly pluralized contemporary European societies, this
book offers a valuable tool for those within and outside Europe
seeking to understand the far-reaching implications of combining
cultures, the struggles of the Muslim-Christian-secular transition,
and the progress which the future promises.
What is the place assigned to religion in the constitutions of
contemporary States? What role is religion expected to perform in
the fields that are the object of constitutional regulation? Is
separation of religion and politics a necessary precondition for
democracy and the rule of law? These questions are addressed in
this book through an analysis of the constitutional texts that are
in force in different parts of the world. Constitutions are at the
centre of almost all contemporary legal systems and provide the
principles and values that inspire the action of the national
law-makers. After a discussion of some topics that are central to
the constitutional regulation of religion, the book considers a
number of national systems covering countries with a variety of
religious and cultural backgrounds. The final section of the book
is devoted to the discussion of the constitutional regulation of
some particularly controversial issues, such as religious
education, the relation between freedom of speech and freedom of
religion, abortion, and freedom of conscience.
Islam and Political-Cultural Europe identifies the sometimes
confusing and often contentious new challenges that arise in daily
life and institutions as Islam settles deeper into Europe.
Critiquing past and recent assimilation efforts in the fields of
education, finance, and security, the contributors offer
prospective solutions to diverse contemporary problems. Exploring
the interactions of Muslim, Christian and secular cultures in the
context of highly pluralized contemporary European societies, this
book offers a valuable tool for those within and outside Europe
seeking to understand the far-reaching implications of combining
cultures, the struggles of the Muslim-Christian-secular transition,
and the progress which the future promises.
Islam, Europe and Emerging Legal Issues brings together vital
analysis of the challenges that Europe poses for an expanding Islam
and that Islam poses for Europe, within their ever-evolving
religious, legal, and social environments. This book gathers some
of the best thinking on Islam and the law affecting current and
contested issues that can no longer be ignored, particularly as
they have found their way before the European Court of Human
Rights. Contributors include leading authorities who are working at
the heart of this generation's law and religion questions in Europe
and across the world. This book outlines implications for all those
who look to Europe-from both within and without-for models of human
rights implementation and multi-cultural accommodation.
We live in an increasingly pluralized world. This sociological
reality has become the irreversible destiny of humankind. Even once
religiously homogeneous societies are becoming increasingly
diverse. Religious freedom is modernity's most profound if
sometimes forgotten answer to the resulting social pressures, but
the tide of pluralization threatens to overwhelm that freedom's
stabilizing force. Religion, Pluralism, and Reconciling Difference
is aimed at exploring differing ways of grappling with the
resulting tensions, and then asking, will the tensions ultimately
yield poisonous polarization that erodes all hope of meaningful
community? Or can the tradition and the institutions protecting
freedom of religion or belief be developed and applied in ways that
(still) foster productive interactions, stability, and peace? This
volume brings together vital and thoughtful contributions treating
aspects of these mounting worldwide tensions concerning the
relationship between religious diversity and social harmony. The
first section explores controversies surrounding religious
pluralism from different starting points, including religious,
political, and legal standpoints. The second section examines
different geographical perspectives on pluralism. Experts from
North and South America, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East
address these issues and suggest not only how social institutions
can reduce tensions, but also how religious pluralism itself can
bolster needed civil society.
We live in an increasingly pluralized world. This sociological
reality has become the irreversible destiny of humankind. Even once
religiously homogeneous societies are becoming increasingly
diverse. Religious freedom is modernity's most profound if
sometimes forgotten answer to the resulting social pressures, but
the tide of pluralization threatens to overwhelm that freedom's
stabilizing force. Religion, Pluralism, and Reconciling Difference
is aimed at exploring differing ways of grappling with the
resulting tensions, and then asking, will the tensions ultimately
yield poisonous polarization that erodes all hope of meaningful
community? Or can the tradition and the institutions protecting
freedom of religion or belief be developed and applied in ways that
(still) foster productive interactions, stability, and peace? This
volume brings together vital and thoughtful contributions treating
aspects of these mounting worldwide tensions concerning the
relationship between religious diversity and social harmony. The
first section explores controversies surrounding religious
pluralism from different starting points, including religious,
political, and legal standpoints. The second section examines
different geographical perspectives on pluralism. Experts from
North and South America, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East
address these issues and suggest not only how social institutions
can reduce tensions, but also how religious pluralism itself can
bolster needed civil society.
This volume presents an analysis of controversial events and issues
shaping a rapidly changing international legal, political, and
social landscape. Leading scholars and experts in law, religious
studies and international relations, thoughtfully consider issues
and tensions arising in contemporary debates over religion and
equality in many parts of the world. The book is in two parts. The
first section focuses on the anti-discrimination dimension of
religious freedom norms, examining the developing law on equality
and human rights and how it operates at international and national
levels. The second section provides a series of case studies
exploring the contemporary issue of same-sex marriage and how it
affects religious groups and believers. This collection will be of
interest to academics and scholars of law, religious studies,
political science, and sociology, as well as policymakers and legal
practitioners.
This volume presents an analysis of controversial events and issues
shaping a rapidly changing international legal, political, and
social landscape. Leading scholars and experts in law, religious
studies and international relations, thoughtfully consider issues
and tensions arising in contemporary debates over religion and
equality in many parts of the world. The book is in two parts. The
first section focuses on the anti-discrimination dimension of
religious freedom norms, examining the developing law on equality
and human rights and how it operates at international and national
levels. The second section provides a series of case studies
exploring the contemporary issue of same-sex marriage and how it
affects religious groups and believers. This collection will be of
interest to academics and scholars of law, religious studies,
political science, and sociology, as well as policymakers and legal
practitioners.
In this volume, ten leading scholars harvest the best of Western
thinking on religious liberty. An opening chapter shows how
religious liberty emerged slowly in the West through centuries of
cruel experience and growing enlightenment. Separate chapters
thereafter take up the unique roles of such titans as Marsilius,
Luther, Calvin, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Burke, Tocqueville, and
the American framers in the Western drama of religious liberty.
From widely divergent experiences, these titans discovered the
cardinal principles of religious liberty--religious pluralism and
toleration, religious equality and non-discrimination, liberty of
conscience and association, freedom of expression and exercise.
From widely discordant convictions, they distilled the most
enduring models of church and state and of religion and law in the
West--from the organic models of earlier centuries to the dualistic
models of more recent times.
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